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19 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I would like to take a moment to congratulate the Champagne Haitians on Martha's Vineyard for starting a long-overdue campaign to Make Martha's Vineyard Haiti Again. I think the golf courses and Covid-proof presidential party tents and yacht houses...
15 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Is Fast Heart Mart the last American songwriter? No. Is he one of the last American songwriters? I hope not. The answer to the question posed in the comment section of the documentary below, "why isn't Fast Heart Mart famous" is that a culture o...
12 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
An interesting snapshot of the zeitgeist of the Bush years, when liberals were still interested in dissent and 9/11 truth, "Bad Americans" is from my 2008 album Blinded By Self-Righteous Degenerates. At the time, it was still considered an indictmen...
5 Sep 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I can't write about this topic anymore. Not only because it makes me viscerally nervous and ill, but because to say it a thousand more times would be even more gratuitous than it already is. The only reason I'm writing this is so I never have to wr...
27 Aug 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I'm older-school than most. There are older people who are older-school than me, by virtue of being older than me, and having therefore gone to school sooner, but I'm older-school than most. I remember when video games all had to be different, inst...
18 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Today is the 10-year anniversary of Garage d'Or, my distorted rock album. Many of the songs were very old when they were recorded 10 years ago, but they never found a place on any of the other albums. Tired of waiting, the songs started a mutiny, a...
17 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Most people don't know that in the Old West, The U.N. and New World Health Organization distributed free blankets to the Native populations of the Western Territories. Touting a forced, disingenuous interest in the "BIPOC" communities of the day, we...
14 Aug 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Everybody's got a bombWe could all die any dayBut before I'll let that happenI'll dance my life away"Prince It doesn't take much to make me want to play these days. But I never do. It isn't playing I don't believe in. You don't want to know wha...
11 Aug 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
My friends David & Shelly need to get back to the U.S. for medical reasons. I met them last year in San Miguel de Allende, where they helped me to escape a weird situation in which my landlord had sicced all kinds of dubious government entities on m...
11 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Today is the 10-year anniversary of the release of Everything I Have Is Yours, my only gospel album to date. It consists of about half originals and half covers. The originals and public-domain cover songs are on the YouTube playlist. The entire a...
